Description:
Technical Program Manager - Kindle for iPhone, Kindle for PC
Are you a hands-on leader that can make a huge impact on Amazon's ability to innovate?
Are you equally comfortable digging in to business requirements as drilling into architecture and design with development teams?
Does the idea of working on platforms such as Kindle for iPhone, Kindle for BlackBerry (announced, but not released yet), Kindle for PC and Kindle for Mac (announced, but not released yet) sound exciting and challenging?
Then this is the position for you. Amazon's Kindle division needs a world class Technical Program Manager to own and launch Kindle applications across a variety of platforms. Our team develops cutting edge Kindle applications for mobile devices, which blend seamlessly into the Kindle ecosystem and are the forefront of reinventing our Customer's reading experience.
This role requires working with product management to define strategy and requirements, and leading development teams across US and abroad from design through delivery. This position involves regular communication with senior management on status, risks and product strategy. Excellent listening, writing skills and strong technical competency are essential.
Qualifications:
*The ideal candidate is a creative, demonstrated leader/manager with superior analytical abilities and product judgment.
*This opportunity requires excellent technical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
*The candidate is not just a policy maker/spokesperson but drives to get things done.
*At the core of the position is delivery.
*The ideal candidate will have 8 or more years of relevant work experience in internet-related project and/or technical product management in a software applications environment.
*Qualified candidates have experience defining projects, collecting requirements, writing detailed functional and test specifications, coordinating efforts to scope, schedule, and deploy new features sets, as well as analyzing the cost/benefit of feature selection and communicating results throughout the organization.
*An undergraduate degree in computer science or equivalent is required.
Knowledge of the following is required:
*product development (including C++, Java, XML, messaging protocols, and Web Services)
*SQL database queries and business analytics
*process building and project managementmanaging release schedules
*experience with application development SDKs is preferred
Interested? http://track.tmpservice.com/ApplyClick.aspx?id=924571-2668-1742
Source: Joel On Software